The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-06-09
PROHIBITION.

PROHIBITION.
Address of Rev. ). B. Hawthorne, ID. D..
In the Opera House, Atlanta, Ca, on
Sunday afternoon, 9Th inst.
From the atlanta Constitutio1,, Norensder O.
1885.
DeGive's Opera House was packed from
pit to dome yesterday afternoon to hear
the lecture on temperance by Rev. j. B.
Hawthorne.
Long before the appointed hour the
house was filled and fifteen hundred OF
two thousand people were turned away
unable to gain admission to the building
1t is estimated that fully three thousand
people heard the address.
The house was called to order by Rev.
T. B. Kendall, who delivered short and
appropriate prayer. The great congre-
CATION then Joined in singing, after which
some announcements were made. DIR.
Hawthorne then arose and spoke as fol-
lows:
This grand gathering Of the friends Of
virtue is under the auspices Of Atlanta's
yirtuous women. There is no safer,
brighter, happier place for man than
that in which the power of Christian
womanhood is supreme. Who doubts
that it is better to be here to-day in
council with these women whose hearts
throb in sympathy with all that is pure
and lovely and divine than in some club
room where the enemies of prohibition
have met to concoct their schemes to
perpetuate the dominion of the worst
enemy that truth ever had, that virtue
ever had, that man ever had?
I am not here to indulge in any idle
ffattery of woman, the occasion is too
solemn and too momentous. 1t is en- old
slander that to please woman, you have
only to make her pleased with herself.
That may be true of some giddy, silly,
empty headed, empty hearted, butterfly Of
fashion, butt was never. true Of q wo-
man. There are females who are not
women. Some one has said that women
are the poetry of the world, that is true,
but in deeper. sense than he meant to
express they are the poetry of the world,
but in the same sense that the stars are
the poetry of Heaven. Clear light
giving and harmonious, they are the
terrestrial planets that rule the destinies
of mankind.
L. believe that it was Lamertine's
remark, that there is a woman at the
beginning of every great thing; she was
at the beginning of that kingdom.which
brings peace on earth and good will to
men; she has been conspicuous in every
grand epoch of that Kingdoms progress
she has been at the beginning of every
great social reform (; she stood by the
cross of Christ when every man.: save
one, had forsaken it, and since then, with
martyrs faith and a hero's courage she
has stood by everything that has blessed
and uplifted humanity. When the tenn
perance movement was in its cradle she
stood over it, smiled upon it, caressed
and nursed it. For the possibilities of
this hour in the prohibition cause We are
mostly indebted to woman ); she has stood
by it and supported it with her prayers
and tears and tolls when men were indif.
ferent and there was no morning star to
tell of coming day.
1t was base treason in George Elliott to
say "tbat woman's hopes are woven of
sunbeams, so that they are not annihilat-
ed by shadow" Of her own hopes it
may have been true, but the assertion is
cruel libel upon the characters of the
thousands and millions of brave women,
who have persevered in the path of duty,
when men tainted and sank down in utter
despair. Itiis said to be peculiarity of
women that they poke the fire 1.-THE top,
but think these whisky rings are begin
ming to wake up to the fact, that the
women of this land have learned to poke
the prohibition FIRE at the bottom. If
they stir their husbands, brothers and
beaux as profoundly as they have stirred
me, we shall hayea moral coDaagration,
in.which the whole kingdom of whisky
shall pass away. aud "like the baseless
fabric of a vision, leave not rack
behind" ,.s
II is an old German proverb that zone
hair of woman's head draws like bell
rope,n but I tell you, that bell ropes and
even iron cables are but cobwebs in
comparison with the cords with which
the women of Atlanta will draw in this
conflict. If they don't drag their COW.
ardly husbands and brothers down, who
are perched upon the fence, it will be
because there is not enough of substance
in them to make a fastening for q rope
The Chinese say that. "a woman's sword
is with her tongue" That is true and
in cause like this in which we are
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engaged to-day she never lets it rust. II
was favorite saying of DR.. Adam CLARK
that in every great moral contest one
good intelligent talking woman is match
for seven and half men, but before this
campaign is over the friends of the dog
gerty will be willing to give us fifty Of
such talking men as they have for one Of
our brave, dauntless, God-inspired NO.
men.
lam not prepared to go as far as the
French proverb and say that "what 9
woman wills God Wills" but l will say
that there is no community on earth ii
which cause worthy of success has evel
failed to the support of which woman
brought an undivided mind and heart
If these wives; mothers and daughters
will be true TO themselves, true to theil